Adding a hard drive?

You said there were spots on the board for adding a SATA drive. What about the power supply? How difficult would it be to add a hard drive? Is there any software that is Apple's to turn it into a Time Capsule?

While you can do it the connector and supporting discreet components are nor present. They can be added, however. You will also need a incredibly short SATA cable that may be impossible to find.

That said it may be possible Apple has 2 firmware variants and flashes the non hard drive firmware on these HDD-less units. This effectively means you will need to re-flash the unit to utilize the hard drive and supporting components. All in all I don't think it's worth the trouble to upgrade the base unit. Just buy it with a hard drive from the factory.

Do not you put inside the airport express terminal a 2.5 inch disk of 1 or 2 Terra with integrated USB controller to connect directly to the USB 2 of the terminal and this making a notch in Ready for the electrical connection and this to exit the USB cable and be able to connect it to the terminal ?????. We will get a Compact Time Machine ????